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Originally Posted by sentient
Do you mean empowerment to practice Ngöndro?
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No, it was a meditation practice.
If you watch this video.
https://youtu.be/8OEjEeki_Ms
The Rinpoche takes one through stages in his meditation. Same stages for mindfulness except at the end where in the Bodhicitta meditation you imagine a light. He stops at resting in awareness.
So, you relax your body, breath, mindfulness and then rest in awareness.
Now his big teaching was be like the sky. The Tibetans like to use that term but what does it mean?
If you think about the big blue sky, does it care what comes and goes? Does it
focus on the plane, on the clouds, on the birds flying around?
No it doesn't.
When one gets to the stage of mindfulness they have developed a level of silence to be able to observe their thoughts.
When one is resting in awareness one tends to do the same thing. You feel, see.. a thought and you
focus on it.
That is the mind going out of deeper levels of meditation. The mind focusing on what is happening is just a deeper level of thought, the focus is the mind trying to gain control again.
The goal of the teaching of MahaMudra that I was taught is to be like the sky. Let the thoughts or whatever arises, arise without the mind focusing on that which arises. Be the awareness, the sky.
When one is able to do this, it is very, very powerful.